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By Elena Shore New America Media Fourteen-year-old Jocelyn wants to be the first person in her family to graduate. But now she may have to do it without the one person who most wanted to be there: her mom. When Alabama enacted the nation’s toughest immigration law, HB 56, her mother was faced with an [...]

Editorial: Last week we published a commentary by Sylvia Puente entitled “Immigration Isn’t Everything: The Latino Vote Will Not Be Blindly Cast.” This has been our sentiment over the many years. This point was further highlighted this week, when we sat down with a delegation from Africa which was in San Diego to learn more [...]

Por Roberto Alonzo Diputado Estatal por el Distrito 104 de Dallas Texas no será Alabama, Pensilvania, ni mucho menos Arizona. Aquí, en nuestro estado, si se respetan los derechos emanados de nuestra Constitución –conquistados a sangre y fuego en feroces batallas— que protegen a los inmigrantes, con o sin papeles. Todos somos para nuestra Carta [...]

The Latino Vote Will Not Be Blindly Cast Commentary: By Sylvia Puente As Latinos are projected to make up nearly nine percent of the electorate in November —a 26 percent increase over the 2008 figure, according to NALEO-the buzz around the power of the Latino vote is warranted. There is the notion that the Latino [...]

Comentario: Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D. Los columnistas dedicados a la difusión de los problemas y virtudes de los grupos minoritarios siempre han estado al filo de la crítica de la derecha. Periodistas como Yvette Cabrera no simplemente están encargados de reportar la realidad de su comunidad, sino también tienen la oportunidad de agregar su opinión [...]

By Mark R. Day When director Michael Weitz showed up recently at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, he couldn’t have picked a better audience for his new film, “A Better Life”. In attendance were more than 200 members of the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON) gathered for a weeklong national assembly. The [...]

Frontera NorteSur Despite an adverse economic and political landscape, immigrant and low-income workers celebrated victories this past week. In California, labor and community activists announced the winning of two new union contracts for car washers, or carwasheros, as they are called locally. The agreements with the Vermont Car Wash and Nava’s Car Wash in the [...]

Guest Editorial: By Rob Sobhani News that the Supreme Court will review Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration should be welcome because it will settle the question of whether state law can supersede immigration powers belonging to the federal government. The controversial law, S.B. 1070, gives police unprecedented power to detain and check the documents of [...]

Frontera NorteSur  For the third time in a year, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez failed in her bid to repeal a 2003 state law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The 2012 New Mexico State Legislature adjourned this past week without approving repeal legislation supported by Republican Martinez and sponsored by State Rep. [...]

Comentario: Por Maribel Hastings A los conservadores republicanos les gusta Marco Rubio como candidato vicepresidencial en la mancuerna republicana de noviembre, o al menos eso concluyó el voto extraoficial de la Conferencia del Comité Conservador de Acción Política (CPAC) este pasado fin de semana. Mientras continúan las especulaciones sobre Rubio como compañero de fórmula del [...]

By Salvador Guerrero Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON – Half a century has gone by since citizens of Alabama marched to oppose harsh state and national laws that restricted the rights of black Americans. Now it seems as though the state has found itself entrenched in the same battle, this time however, at the heart [...]

Border Wall, Mexicali, Baja California Norte February 2 through April 30 “Beyond Borders” — photographs by David Bacon  On February 2, the Center for Cultural Investigation of the Autonomous University of Baja California mounted an exhibition of 18 large photographs, taken by photographer David Bacon, on the border wall, next to the garita, or gate, [...]

Comentario: Por Israel Ortega  Ha sido dicho anteriormente, pero tiene que repetirse. Los hispanos no son votantes preocupados por un solo tema. Esto, a pesar de la narrativa que la prensa hispana y el lobby hispano propagan. Los hispanos están preocupados por temas más allá del asunto migratorio. Esto fue recientemente confirmado en una encuesta [...]

Perspective: By Raul Rodriguez New America Media  BERKELEY— As President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address, the 11 sentences he dedicated to addressing my current immigration status did little to instill in me any more optimism than did similar statements from the last State of the Union… or the one before that. [...]

 By Marshall Fitz and Sarah Jane Glynn By next month Congress must extend the 2012 payroll tax cut to help boost our nation’s economic recovery. In 2011 this tax cut resulted in 122 million American households boosting their take-home-pay worth to the total tune of $120 billion. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax [...]

  By Michelle Mittelstadt New America Media  Editor’s Note: A recent New York Times op-ed by Dowell Myers argues that we need to shift from an “immigration policy,” focused on border enforcement, to an “immigrant policy” focused on the integration of those who are already here. The argument is based on reports that illegal immigration [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur  Pro-immigrant and civil liberties groups are stepping up the pressure against US Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment’s (ICE) Secure Communities program. Designed to remove immigrant lawbreakers from the United States, Secure Communities enlists local law enforcement agencies in a cooperative relationship with ICE in order to identify, hold and deport foreign [...]